Cold In Alaska

**RBB** · 01-09-2009, 08:59 AM

How you Alaska guys doing?

Saw this in the Minneapolis paper. Sounds too cold for me:

http://www.startribune.com/nation/37...?elr=KArksUUUU

**crashdive123** · 01-09-2009, 09:24 AM

Saw on the news last night that our friends in Alaska were having one of the coldest winters on record. I'll be thinking warm thoughts for you.

**Sourdough** · 01-09-2009, 09:24 AM

Nippy snap is largely over or will be in two more days. I would have bet good money that the Turkeys and Geese who are homeless, heatless, and waterless would not have made it through the last three weeks.

Inside the cabin the frost is thick on the lower 3 feet of the walls. The ice under the bed is 2" to 3" ( where the air does not move, ice builds ).

It has warmed to -16* outside and +47* inside the cabin.

It was never colder than -31* here the last three weeks.

**crashdive123** · 01-09-2009, 09:27 AM

Hopeak - I think you said in another thread that this was a new cabin? How does heating it compare to the old one?

**Sourdough** · 01-09-2009, 09:34 AM

Originally Posted by crashdive123

Hopeak - I think you said in another thread that this was a new cabin? How does heating it compare to the old one?

The floor never got insulated......

and the woodstove is like the human resident....Old, Rusty, Tired, and had a clogged exhaust.

**Pal334** · 01-09-2009, 10:53 AM

Cold is bad enough, but a clogged exhaust?

I guess I will not start my whining about the fact that it was 27 degrees when I went to work.

**dolfan87** · 01-09-2009, 11:06 AM

Fiber brother...fiber.

**pgvoutdoors** · 01-09-2009, 11:45 AM

Everyone up there keep the fires going, it can't last forever. Right? We're thinking of you...

**klkak** · 01-09-2009, 03:03 PM

With it warming up a bit maybe I'll be able to get my truck started. When I got up this morning it was only -10. Maybe I'll wait till tomarrow to start the truck.

**welderguy** · 01-09-2009, 03:14 PM

Thank god I have never experianced anything below -10 or 15 and that was only for a few days, I am not a cold lover if it is below + 50 Im freezing.

God bless you brave souls living in that type of climate.

**doug1980** · 01-09-2009, 03:56 PM

I can't say I enjoy it at all. I don't think a person could ever get used to these temps.

**trax** · 01-09-2009, 04:07 PM

Well, come on now Doug, Inuit have been handling it for about 12,000 years...give or take....

**RBB** · 01-10-2009, 11:27 PM

Minus 78

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/s...oryId=99162528

That's mighty cold!

**crashdive123** · 01-10-2009, 11:53 PM

Brrrrrrrrrrr! It was 150*F warmer in Jacksonville, FL today.

**doug1980** · 01-10-2009, 11:59 PM

Originally Posted by crashdive123

Brrrrrrrrrrr! It was 150*F warmer in Jacksonville, FL today.

I miss Florida.

**wareagle69** · 01-11-2009, 08:08 AM

i love the cold it was -15 to -30 here all week, funny thing is during the day at -20 i was splitting the wood and down to just my long shrit with a tee shirt underneath and felt wonderful even the horses are full of joy buckin and playin sure beats the heat, and yes i know i lived in AZ for 7 years "but its a dry heat" ya and so's the oven but ya don't see me sticking me head in there do ya, nope sorry as someone who has lived thru both give me the cold.bseides it keeps the trouble makers inside

**RBB** · 01-11-2009, 01:06 PM

Originally Posted by wareagle69

i love the cold it was -15 to -30 here all week, funny thing is during the day at -20 i was splitting the wood and down to just my long shrit with a tee shirt underneath and felt wonderful even the horses are full of joy buckin and playin sure beats the heat, and yes i know i lived in AZ for 7 years "but its a dry heat" ya and so's the oven but ya don't see me sticking me head in there do ya, nope sorry as someone who has lived thru both give me the cold.bseides it keeps the trouble makers inside

I agree - to a certain extent, but - minus 78?

Not a temp where I'd be out chopping wood - or doing anything else. That's "hunker down and get through it" weather.

**pgvoutdoors** · 01-12-2009, 09:26 AM

It looks like that Alaskan cold front will be moving down and across the States. Were suppose to receive it by Tuesday night, pushing temperatures down around zero or a bit below. Still better than what you guys are getting out of it. The hard part about the winters here is the dramatic fluctuations in temperature, just can't get acculumated.

Good luck to all of you up there!